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Article: The Passion of `The Alamo': Actors say it was emotional experience.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- April 5, 2004
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Byline: Jane Sumner
SAN ANTONIO _ Mel Gibson isn't the only one with a religious film this season. Mickey Mouse has one, too. Touchstone Pictures' long-awaited "The Alamo" hits neighborhood theaters on Friday.
The PG-13 film, written and directed by Texas City native John Lee Hancock, has its own kind of passion and fervor.
And, of course, its own Texas version of a trinity _ Jim Bowie (Jason Patric), Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton) and William Barret Travis (Patrick Wilson).
In the introduction to his witty, fact-filled "Alamo Movies" book, film historian Frank Thompson notes, "Texans have made a kind of religion of the Alamo."
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